SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea on July 20, it has mandated all Internet-delivered text messages to be marked with a “[Web Relayed]” sign and has implemented a “Prevention of Piracy of Numbers in Web-based Smishing” service for use by individuals. Web-relayed SMS have [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) –The sense of urgency that IT companies are encroaching on the mobile payment market is making banks to competitively beef up their smartphone-based electronic commerce services and scramble into the “war of mobile wallet.” Mobile Wallet or E-Wallet is a service that provides a convenient and technologically quick method [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – An ICT competition will be held to penetrate North Korea’s severely controlled information network and send in outside information of the “free world.” According to Radio Free Asia, the Human Rights Foundation, a North Korea human rights group, will hold a “hackathon” event, competing participants’ skills bypassing North Korea’s [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that the company, together with Ericsson, the world-renowned telecommunications technology and service provider, successfully demonstrated the Elastic Cell technology on July 21. The technology, demonstrated for the first time in the world, is expected to become a key enabler for 5G. Elastic [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – KT will advance into the “smart” energy market by transforming its 400 branch offices and data centers into advanced energy centers, which, according to KT’s plan, will offer EV (electric vehicle) charging services, recycle wasted heat gathered from data centers, provide integrated ESS-EMS service and manage electric demand intelligently. The [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Broadband plans to strengthen its content delivery network (CDN) business. The second largest broadband Internet provider in Korea in terms of the number of subscribers announced on July 16 that it will exclusively provide CDN service to Seoul Digital University which boasts the largest number of online students among online [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – For the first time among Internet portal service providers, Naver began providing stock quotes and corporate information of companies listed on the Korea New Exchange (KONEX) market. KONEX is a stock market exclusively for small- and medium-sized companies to help them raise funds easily. So far KONEX market information has been [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A smartphone application designed exclusively for teenagers and their parents has been rolled out to offer special features to protect the teens’ smartphone addiction and provide online counseling services. On July 15, SK Telecom, largest mobile carrier in Korea, introduced the teenage protection app “T Teenager Safe Pack 2” [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KT announced on July 11 that it has successfully established “a Smart Plant Factory Total Solution,” an agricultural cultivation facility using ICT technology, in one of the agrarian districts of Gangwon Province in Korea. As part of the wider program to make farming a high value-added business and linked with [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Upon the launch of its premium tablet PC “Galaxy Tap S,” Samsung Electronics will initiate, from July 11 to August 10, an “Ad Collage Marketing” for its new product. Collage is a term used for a technique of art production, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different [...]